Is there a socioeconomic disparity in the prevalence of diabetes among older Japanese adults?
There is an income-based gradient in diabetes prevalence among older Japanese women, highlighting the need for public health monitoring of socioeconomic disparities.
Only women showed an income-based gradient in diabetes. Monitoring income gradient in diabetes is important in public health actions, even in older populations. Future longitudinal and intervention studies should evaluate the causal link of income to diabetes onset, determine the mechanisms of the potential sex differences in the income/diabetes association, and identify ways to mitigate the income-based inequality.
Nagamine et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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